The Māori Party is supporting a call from the Children’s Commissioner for the Government to lead the development of a plan to reduce child poverty in Aotearoa.
“It is within our capacity to eliminate poverty if there’s will and we must act before it is beyond us,” says co-leader Marama Fox. “We can’t wait another generation before we take more active steps to reduce and eliminate poverty, or we will see yet another generation of hardship where families are forced to choose between feeding their children or paying their rent.”

Māori Party acknowledges John Key
The Māori Party will always be grateful to John Key for making a space at the table of his Government for a kaupapa Māori Party.
“It has been under the leadership of John Key that the Māori Party has been able to secure gains for Maori and advance kaupapa Māori over the past eight years,” said Maori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell.
“We may not have agreed on everything but we’ve always maintained a respectful relationship with the Prime Minister and he with us,” said Mr Flavell.

MEDIA STATEMENT
Te Ururoa Flavell
Waiariki MP; Maori Party Co-Leader; White Ribbon Ambassador
25 November 2016
“More needs to be done to stop domestic violence over and above telling men to stop it and over and above the recent changes launched by Government.”
That is according to Māori Party Co-Leader and White Ribbon Ambassador Te Ururoa Flavell following the alleged murder of a pregnant woman in Opotiki on Tuesday night.
“My heart breaks for her family and for her and her unborn baby and what they had to endure the night their lives were taken,” says Mr Flavell who is also the MP for Waiariki, which includes Opotiki.